Today we began our day by asking for a math test, no play time, and zero sensory time! JOKING!
Our Wednesday began with sensory diets, math ring toss, and Blokus. This game is great for turn taking, abstract and creative thinking, complex communication, problem solving, math skills, fine motor skills, oral communication and sportsmanship. Sensory diets are so important for regulation, auditory processing skills, teamwork, social skills, sportsmanship, motor planning, body mapping, sequencing, gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination. Ring toss is a great tool to work on our fine and gross motor skills, visual spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, accuracy, turn taking, sportsmanship, and math skills.
Blokus
Math Ring Toss
Sensory Diets
Some of our friends continued to discuss, research, and look at the scientific method to come up with our own question(s) to test/investigate. We also went over what a hypothesis is, what materials we will need, how we can test our hypotheses, and ideas for design and development.
Here is Mr. Carter using his problem solving skills, reading skills, sequencing, and math skills in order to make Ghostbuster slime!
Grosssssss haha.
More Sensory Diets
Mr. Ojani was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time, and feelings.
Before gym class today we all did very well tying up our shoe laces almost entirely on our own! Great fine motor skills gentlemen! : )
Shoe Lace Time
In gym class today we played a couple warm up games and then Scooter Soccer. It was so much fun and everyone demonstrated great auditory processing skills, teamwork, social skills, social problem solving skills, sportsmanship, motor planning, body mapping, sequencing, gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.
(Sorry Mr. Jacob was unable to take any photos as he was busy playing with everyone!)
In Mindfulness today we went over calming and deep breathing yoga videos. Most of our friends were attentive, focused, determined, and calm while working on their breathing, body awareness and body mapping and flexibility.
Some of our friends continued to discuss, research, and look at the scientific method to come up with our own question(s) to test/investigate. We also went over what a hypothesis is, what materials we will need, how we can test our hypotheses, and ideas for design and development.
After recess we participated in a fun Scavenger Hunt that utilized our reading and thinking skills, abstract and symbolic skills, directional and positional language, math skills, team work and social skills, gross motor skills, bilateral movements, body awareness, planning and mapping, as well as oral communication skills and complex language.
Reading our first clue.
And they're off!!!
"There must be a clue around here somewhere!"
"Hmmm. Where is the next clue?"
"We are getting closer....
...yippee we found it!"
"Hey, what is under here?"
We also spent some time writing letters home to ask our parents for $4.00, if we do chores, for our trip to No Frill's next Tuesday, November 22, 2016.
Our last activity of the day we continued to discuss, research, and look at the scientific method to come up with our own question(s) to test/investigate. We also went over all of our materials, what we will need, how we can test our hypotheses, and ideas for design and development.
Sander's Boat Experiment
Avery looking at sound and vibrations using the Scientific Method
Ojani grabbing supplies for his catapult.
Boat assembly time!
Our friends hard at work!
Eric listing his materials for his fossil experiment.
Carter making his boat.
Testing
NEWS: All Art Reach forms and payment of $15.00 must be returned by Friday, November 18th, and picture retakes are tomorrow, as well as payments for photos!
HOMEWORK TIPS:
(1) Discuss and research things for your science experiment.
(2) Work on two and three-digit addition and subtraction questions, as well as multiplication and division questions whether you write down some questions for your child, or use math to cook, clean, set the table, do chores, play games, create a game, divide using coins and prices for things they are interested in, etc.
(3) Spend 15 minutes reading a book of your child's choice, a cartoon, instructions, recipe, comic strip, etc. Make reading fun, engaging, an adventure, and not a boring chore. You can also have your child create their own picture story book using the 5-Finger Retell Model.
*** Have your child look at a recipe, find/go out and buy the ingredients, prepare the meal, cook the meal, serve the meal, set the table, and clean up! This can be a great learning experience for all areas of mathematics, as well as life skills, fine motor skills, social skills, independent skills, confidence, and health and nutrition. If you want, students can do these jobs and earn some allowance to help fund our own cooking classes at school. This is entirely up to you, but the amount we figured out as a class is $4.00 per student). Or, your child can rake the leaves, clean the washroom, do laundry, etc. We need the money for Monday, November 21, 2016 as we are going to No Frill's on Tuesday, November 22, 2016.
Mr. Jacob : )
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